Thoroughbred Daily News | By Alan Carasso
If bloodstock agent Mike Pender feels the urge to pinch himself from time to time, it would be hard to hold that against him. Having trained the likes of Grade I winners Jeranimo and Ultimate Eagle for his late client B. J. Wright in a career that lasted 15 years, Pender is now very much focused on the bloodstock side of the game, and his two current success stories–the three-time graded-stakes winning turf sprinter Queen Maxima (Bucchero) and Grade I-winning ‘TDN Rising Star’ presented by Hagyard Intrepido (Maximus Mischief)–are doing their part to keep the humble horseman’s name in lights. Both horses are campaigned by Dutch Girl Holdings and Irving Ventures.
